pre- and post-compilation hooks

From:

Baurzhan Ismagulov

Subject:

pre- and post-compilation hooks

Date:

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:37:58 +0100

User-agent:

Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hello,
I'd like to migrate a SNiFF+ project to automake. So far, it looks quite
promising. Two issues:
1. The compilation rule performs some custom pre-processing before
actually calling the compiler; if pre-processing fails, the compiler
is not called, and make is stopped.
2. The Tasking C166/ST10 compiler doesn't support generating
dependencies, so I'd like to call gcc to do that if the compilation
was successful.
How can I do that with automake?
I could only think about writing a wrapper around the compiler, but I'm
wondering whether there is a better solution.
Thanks in advance,
--
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/